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Stage: A Rare 'Streetcar'; Fresh Approach Taken at Vivian Beaumont

By CLIVE BARNES ();

April 27, 1973,

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The difficulty when confronting a modem classic is that it is not exactly modern and not precisely classic. Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire," which opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center last night, is one of the most celebrated plays of the century.

April 27, 1973

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